Project 365- Day 75

I have this friend.
We'll call her Trixie.
Trixie has a serious knack for finding four leaf clovers.
It's a little annoying, really.
Every time she takes her kids to the park, she finds one.
Every time.
Every single time!
Okay maybe not every time.
But often.

I grew up with clover all over our back yard. I would sit outside for hours combing through the multitudes of green leaves and I never found a single four leaf clover.
Recently we got bunnies and the kids and I have been collecting clover and grass as a treat for them.
And because of Trixie's ease at finding them I am convinced that it is much easier than it seems.
I just need to try harder.
I guess you could say I am a little competitive.

It's become an obsession.
The kids will have lost their interest in playing with the bunnies.
They head inside the house and I, saying I am just collecting for the bunnies, will spend the day searching for one.
Just one.
Until the light has left the sky and I am searching with a flashlight, I continue on my quest.
Alright, alright.
I am not that obsessed.
But I am maybe a little mad that Trixie can find all the four leaf clovers her heart desires and I can't even find one.
I am half Irish after all.
Don't I deserve a little bit of luck?

Today, I got my wish.
And this time, I wasn't even looking.
I was bending down to pick up some trash one of my rotten messy kids had left on our front walk.
I looked to the edge of the cement and there, amid a sea of green clover, I saw it.

But wait, why does it have four stems?
Aren't they supposed to have only three stems?
What kind of a messed up clover did I find?
Turns out, I found a clover whose mutation was due to genetics rather than environmental reasons.
I did some internet research and here I found this:
"The Classic 4-leaf clover has, well, 4 leaflets. Most mutants have three leaf stems in which one has split into two leaves,one usually smaller than the other. These types are probably produced by environmental factors more than genetic factors (not that genes don't play a part). Shamrocks with 4 leaflets, evenly shaped, and 4 separate leaflet stems are, from my experience, rarer, and probably strongly genetically influenced." 
So my clover is the rarest of the rare.
How's that for luck?
Top this one Trixie!

* I should add that I hold nothing personal against Trixie. She is actually a very good friend who I believe might in fact be a Leprechaun, which is perhaps why she has such an easy time finding her lucky charms.